Will there be any future adjustments for tanking jobs?

[Mhurron]

Re: Will there be any future adjustments for tanking jobs?

Wow... we've got a winner on here when posters like Mhurron, ... are made to look like nice guys in comparison. lol

I am a nice guy you bastard.

[Malacite]

Re: Will there be any future adjustments for tanking jobs?

I am a nice guy you bastard.

Deliberate Irony ftw >.>

[Amele]

Re: Will there be any future adjustments for tanking jobs?

I think every tank depends on DD cooperation to some degree. It's not a bad thing, really, to be able to trade damage output for safety; if a DD can go crazy with no fear for safety/cure MP, then it'd be broken. >_>;
One Tarutaru SAM in my party has been top DD and challenge to tank for since Lv.30 or so. Now, we have two Taru SAM's... Tanking for my static has been quite fun. ^_^;

our sams are a galkan sam/rng with full crit merits, and me with (lol mage) and evasion merits (hume sam/war) - I keep a tanking set on me, mostly evasion/agi for seigan/third eye/parry tanking, so that helps when I decide to step over the hate line.

In general, the best bet should be enmity/Defense for your PLD. You don't have as deep of healing power as my static, so I'd be hesitant to let the PLD take much more damage. Without Haste to speed up Flash recast, and with SMN's generally preferring not to use Hastega, I don't see too many other way of improving PLD's tanking performance except with enmity gear.
Not sure if anything can help with SAM/RNG, though. >_>;

we use hastega and fenrir acc/evasion normally - although vs. colibri smn used acc/evasion and statsup (both fenrir). and at this level range (we're not quite 60) I'm the problem more so than the sam/rng (I think it'll change once he gets the next step of racc gear and barrage though). I may go sam/thf to try to help with the hate issues.

With BRD and COR, you probably don't want a SAM/THF, either. =/ Perhaps have SMN coordinate with the SAM's for Earthen Ward before they go all out?

not entirely sure why you say this, actually - if it's aoe song/roll effect concerns - I would normally melee from the far side, moving only to do TA.

otherwise I'm not certain why you think sam/thf is subpar except perhaps that it's less powerful dot than sam/war (I think it might be balanced by letting sam/rng go all out - although up to this point I'm the lion's share of the DD).

To be honest, I don't see massive shift to DD as the solution for your PLD. With BRD and COR buffing the melee's, it'd be hard on any tank without Trick Attack'ed WS on him, really.
Enmity+ gear should help, but unlikely to work miracles.
Have fun with your static. ^_^

oh yeah. I just meant, if you wanted another tester, I bet we could do it. paladin is tanking fine as long as the other sam and/or I don't decide to go nuts with the damage. lol